Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad's son Asad, wanted in the Umesh Pal murder case, was killed in an encounter with the Uttar Pradesh police in Jhansi on Thursday, officials said.
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed for a week the Centre's order dismissing Satish Chandra Verma, a senior IPS officer who assisted the Central Bureau of Investigation in its probe in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, a month before his scheduled retirement.
Till now, the CBI has examined 73 witnesses in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh alleged fake encounter case.
Panthic politics came easily to Parkash Singh Badal. But he was quick to abandon it when it became a problem, points out Aditi Phadnis.
The bullet-riddled bodies of Ahmad and Ashraf were taken away from the spot as tension gripped the area after the sensational killing.
Satish Uke has filed several petitions against BJP leaders, especially former Maharashtra chief minister Fadnavis.
As Bishnoi's petition came up for hearing in the court of Justice Sureshwar Thakur on Thursday, Punjab advocate general Anmol Rattan Sidhu argued that the plea should be dismissed as premature.
'Election expenses run into several crores. And that is where people like Dubey come in handy to finance elections, indulge in booth capturing and to do the dirty job of politicians.'
Vanzara was granted bail in the encounter case involving Jahan and three others in February last year on condition that he will not enter Gujarat.
The man who fired the first shot at Umesh Pal, a key witness in the killing of former Bahujan Samaj Party legislator Raju Pal, was gunned down in an encounter with Prayagraj police early Monday, officials said.
Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi has told investigators that his gang's members, including Canada-based Goldy Brar, hatched a conspiracy and killed Sidhu Moosewala, officials said on Friday.
He also cited media reports that the judge hearing the case has been replaced, and tagged on Twitter the report entitled "Sohrabuddin Sheikh case: Fresh questions as judge who lifted media gag and slammed CBI is replaced".
The Gujarat government objected to making the report public, contending that it was not clear whether the views expressed were unilateral or whether Justice Bedi had shared them with other members of the monitoring committee.
The chief investigating officer told the court that he had not found any material evidence to show who the political beneficiaries were.
A day after the Central Bureau of Investigation told a court in Ahmedabad that it is probing the role of Intelligence Bureau officers in the Ishrat Jahan case, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said those guilty of carrying out the alleged fake encounter should be punished.
A former investigating officer in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case has alleged that ex-Director General of Police P C Pande and chief of Gujarat Crime Investigation Department O P Mathur 'systematically' and 'concertedly' tried to compromise fair and impartial investigation into the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
Suspended Indian Police Service officer D G Vanzara, an accused in a string of fake encounter killing cases, was admitted to a hospital in Ahemdabad on Saturday after he complained of chest pain.
'Was the entire place properly sanitised by the police before he was brought out of the prison for this medical check-up?' 'Once he filed a plea in the Supreme Court stating there was a threat to his life, the UP police should have maintained stricter vigilance.'
Taking strong exception to the CBI's alleged "witch-hunt" against its officials in the Ishrat Jahan case, the Intelligence Bureau has lodged a strong protest with the Union Home Ministry saying the investigating agency's move would only hurt the morale of the officers of IB.
The court allowed the discharge applications after the Gujarat government refused to grant sanction to the CBI to prosecute them.
"We have carefully gone through the review petition and the connected papers, but we see no reason to interfere with the order impugned. The review petition is, accordingly, dismissed," the bench said.
Retired Indian Police Service officer D G Vanzara, who is out on bail in Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case, on Friday returned home after nine years and announced that he will enter public life.
The court remanded advocate Uke and his brother Pradeep Uke in the ED's custody till April 6.
Gulab Chand Kataria is the second high profile politician to be named in the alleged fake encounter case after former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah, considered close to Chief Minister Narendra Modi
Suspended Indian Police Service officer D G Vanzara, an accused in a string of fake encounter killing cases, was admitted to a hospital in Ahemdabad on Saturday after he complained of chest pain.
The Delhi high court on Monday refused to stay the Centre's order dismissing Satish Chandra Verma, a senior IPS officer who had assisted the CBI in its probe in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, a month before his scheduled retirement.
The Maharashtra government had argued in the apex court that all pleas seeking an independent probe into Loya's death were motivated and aimed at targeting "one individual" in the guise of upholding the rule of law.
The government on Wednesday denied two premier organisations of the country -- the Central Bureau of India and Intelligence Bureau -- were fighting with each other over the issue of prosecuting IB officials in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case saying the "mudslinging" was happening only in the press.
The CBI, probing the 2004 fake encounter case of Isharat Jahan and three others, on Tuesday arrested suspended IPS officer D G Vanzara from Sabarmati Central Jail.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, which is probing the 2004 fake encounter case of Isharat Jahan and three others, on Tuesday arrested suspended Indian Penal Service officer D G Vanzara from Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad. The arrest was made after permission was granted by a special CBI court earlier in the day, sources said.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court inn Ahmedabad on Tuesday granted permission to the central probe agency to arrest Gujarat IPS officer D G Vanzara, in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case.
The family and the lawyer of Ishrat Jahan, who was killed in an alleged fake encounter in Gujarat, on Thursday raised questions over David Coleman Headley's testimony that she was a Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative, saying this was for the "political benefit of some big people" whose names have been "besmirched."
IPS officer D G Vanzara, who is behind the bars in connection with fake encounter cases, will retire on Saturday. After serving for 34 years, the suspended officer who is in jail for the last seven years will retire. He is lodged in Sabarmati Central Prison.
Former Gujarat Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday accused the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Supreme Court of acting with a "malafide design" to seek his police custody again by filing a separate charge sheet in the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case.
The Supreme Court on Friday called for an investigation into the alleged 1528 judicial killings by the army and other security forces in Manipur.
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed further proceedings against former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah in the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case.A bench of justices P Sathasivam and Ranjan Gogoi also issued a notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation on Shah's plea -- contending that Prajapati murder case is part of Sohrabuddin Sheikh's fake encounter case and they should be heard together.
During interrogation, the arrested criminals had disclosed that the weapons recovered from them were supplied by Bishnoi, a senior police official said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested two police officers who were part of as many squads that took part in the alleged fake encounter of teenage girl Ishrat Jahan and three others in 2004 in Gujarat.
The home ministry is not convinced that the Central Bureau of Investigation has evidence to arrest or prosecute a top Intelligence Bureau officer in the conspiracy to carry out the fake encounter in which Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed in Gujarat nine years ago.
The Army moved an application before the Chief Judicial Magistrate Srinagar, the designated CBI court, seeking transfer of the Pathribal fake encounter case to the General Court Martial, a court official said on Friday
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